Senior Principal Offensive Security Engineer (OCI)

Job Description

Offensive Security Engineer
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Group

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Offensive Security team provides OCI with the capabilities to ensure our systems and services meet the security objectives we communicate to customers. The Offensive Security group performs security assessments, vulnerability research, static and dynamic analysis research, penetration testing, red-teaming, and security tool development. We ensure the security of the software and hardware that runs our cloud infrastructure and strive for continuous improvement. The OCI Offensive Security group works as a team. We don't fit people into predefined roles. We bring together the right people who enhance team capability and build roles around each team member's skills and interests.

Values are OCI's foundation and how we deliver excellence. We strive for equity, inclusion, and respect for all. We are committed to the greater good in our products and our actions. We are continually learning and taking opportunities to grow our careers and ourselves. We challenge each other to stretch beyond our past to build our future. You can learn more about us by visiting https://cloud.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure.

Are you interested in building large-scale distributed security systems and tools for the cloud?  Do you love the idea of working in an environment with the excitement of a start-up, but the financial backing of a Fortune 100 company?  This role offers huge upside potential, high visibility, and fast career growth without the risks of a typical start-up.  We are growing fast, maturing, and working on results-oriented initiatives.  A security-focused leader can have significant technical and business impact.   This is a unique opportunity to work with smart people to solve complex problems in distributed systems, security, and multi-tenant Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) operating at massive scale.  The biggest challenges for the team is the dynamic and fast growth of the business, driving us to improve our systems, tools, and automation to scale to our security expertise several orders of magnitude greater than what we can support today.  We understand that software is living and needs investment.  The challenge is making the right tradeoffs, communicating those decisions effectively, and crisp execution.  We hope you like working at scale as much as we do because Oracle has no shortage of it!  Craft the future of one of the largest clouds on earth with us!

Our ideal candidate is a hardworking and hands-on engineer who cares about security and improves their knowledge every day.  We're looking for hands-on cloud hackers with expertise and passion in identifying and exploiting complex security problems in distributed, multi-tenant services and infrastructure.  We operate distributed systems at a high scale, worldwide. These are the foundations of our cloud environment. Our customers run their businesses on our cloud, and our mission is to provide them with a best-in-class and ever-expanding set of cloud-based services.

A security-focused engineer at any level can have significant technical and business impact. Come shape the future of one of the largest clouds on earth with us. To get you excited, here is a list of some of the projects over the last year this team has worked on:

• Big iron - ExaLogic, ExaData, UltraSPARC, InfiniBand
• Firmware reverse engineering of various hardware components
• Developing custom fuzzing platforms for code-coverage analysis
• Several different hypervisors
• Linux and Windows kernel mode non-sense
• The list goes on and on!

This role is for a hands-on cloud hacker on the Offensive Security Team.

This team is targeting candidates in the U.S. who can work ONSITE in Nashville-TN (priority) or Austin-TX (secondary). Relocation Assistance provided. (This is not a remote position) 

Must be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident of the United States. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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